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Features photographs that document the disappearing livelihood of the southern truck farmer. The images in this work also show the stamp of the men's presence on the landscape: their garden plots, their antique machinery, and their homes and outbuildings. It pays tribute to the dignity of local ways in the face of globalism and urban expansion.Read more...

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"The southern truck farmer... is a symbol of what's left of a human scale in a world gone big." - Tom Rankin, from the conclusion "Dilbeck's photographs can stir memories and emotions and most significantly take us down a road that we may not know but all are traveling." - Roy L. Flukinger, Research Curator of Photography, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin "This is the kind of intimate and detailed looking we have come to appreciate in the work of the great FSA photographers.... Dilbeck's truck farmers come to us whole, and through that we can perhaps learn something about how to fit into the world." - William Wylie, University of Virginia "I wish there were a way for Perry to photograph every farmer in Georgia. The Last Harvest is a touching and fitting tribute." - Tommy Irvin, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture"Read more...